Wes-Kaap Simmentaler cattle-breeders’ club member, and wife, critically injured during farm attack near Malmesbury, West Cape

Members of the West-Cape Simmentaler Club are horrified and shocked about the cruel axe-attack on Pieter Loubser and his wife Brenda on Friday-morning Nov 19 2011 at their dairy farm near Malmesbury.

Pieter and Brenda were attacked by three men with axes who broke open their homestead. Both are seriously injured. Pieter’s head-injuries are very serious and he is in the intensive-care unit. (Other news sources also say that Brenda was very brutally sexually assaulted).

Farm attacks place the food-security of this country in great danger. Irresponsible behaviour and statements by radical young black politicians are directly responsible for this – despite the fact that they themselves fatten themselves with food produced by those same farmers which are so badly maligned by these leaders.

. As chairman of the club I ask each member to pray for their completely recovery and cure. We also pray for strength for the family in these traumatic times.” Thys Swart (Voorsitter: Wes-Kaap Simmentaler en Simbra klub) foto van Mnr. Pieter Loubser, bestuurslid van Wes-Kaap Simmentaler klub, vroeër vanjaar by die Nasionale Simmentaler kampioenskappe. http://www.afrikaans.simmentaler.co.za/index.php/welcome/

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '